AWARD WINNERS
Congratulations to all our award-winning films and filmmakers.
2022
SCINEMA BEST FILM
Secrets In The Scat
Directed by Ruth Berry (Austria)
SCINEMA AWARD SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD
The Sixth Mass Extinction: Last Letter From Wilson
Directed by Pyeongsoon Choi (Republic Of Korea)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
The Lake At The Bottom Of The World
Directed by Kathryn Kasic (USA)
SCINEMA AWARD BEST EXPERIMENTAL/ANIMATION
How Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Work
Directed by Donald Rayne Mitchell (USA)
SCINEMA JUNIOR AWARD
The Living Sea
Directed by Ema Poposka (Hong Kong)
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
Shattering Stars
Directed by Peter Galison (USA)
SCINEMA AWARD BEST ONLINE FORMAT
Unvarnished Diaries Of A CERN Scientist – Working On The Biggest Science Experiment Ever
Directed by Markus Mooslechner (Austria)
SCINEMA JUNIOR MERIT AWARD
Cry Of The Corals
Directed by Sakina Mandsaurwalla (India)
2021
SCINEMA BEST FILM
Seven Worlds, One Planet — South America
Directed by Chadden Hunter (United Kingdom)
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
The Slime Minder
Directed by Katie Garrett (USA)
SCINEMA AWARD BEST EXPERIMENTAL/ANIMATION
On/Off
Directed by Nicolas P. Villarreal (Argentina)
SCINEMA INDIGENOUS/FIRST NATIONS AWARD
A Hundred Year Journey
Directed by Antti Seppänen (Australia/Finland)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Directed by Bill Haney (USA)
SCINEMA AWARD BEST ONLINE FORMAT
How Deadly | World
Directed by Hannah Draper (Australia)
SCINEMA JUNIOR AWARD
The Nature of Music
Directed by Malia Barrele, Ryan Twemlow (Australia)
SCINEMA AWARD SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD
The Lady Anatomist
Directed by Iris Fegerl (Germany)
SCINEMA SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Phenomena (series)
Directed by Josef Gatti (Australia)
2020
SCINEMA BEST FILM
My Year of Living Mindfully
Directed by Julian Harvey (Australia)
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
Scratching the Surface
Directed by Bethany Staley (United Kingdom)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
She Walks With Apes
Directed by Caitlin Starowicz (Canada)
SCINEMA JUNIOR AWARD
Animal Therapy
Directed by Caitlin Vass (Australia)
SCINEMA AWARD BEST ONLINE FORMAT
Reconnexion
Directed by Dimitri Kourtchine (France)
SCINEMA AWARD BEST EXPERIMENTAL/ANIMATION
Bugbottle
Directed by Beau Janzen (United States)
SCINEMA AWARD SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD
#NatureNow
Directed by Beau Janzen (United States)
2019
SCINEMA BEST FILM
The Face of a Stranger
Directed by Geneviève Turcotte, Produced by Découverte, Radio-Canada, Written by, Danny Lemieux (Canada)
SCINEMA BEST DOCUMENTARY
Vitamania
Directed, produced and written by Sonya Pemberton (Australia)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Smart Slime?
Directed by Juliette Martineau (United Kingdom)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
700 Sharks
Directed by Luc Marescot (France)
SCINEMA SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Most Unknown
Directed by Ian Cheney (United States)
2018
SCINEMA BEST FILM
The Kingdom – How Fungi Made Our World
Directed by Annamaria Talas, Simon Nasht (Australia), Produced by Susan MacKinnon (Australia), Anne Pick, Bill Spahic (Canada)
SCINEMA BEST DOCUMENTARY
Grassroots
Directed by Frank Oly (Australia), Written and Produced by Tegan Nock (Australia)
SCINEMA BEST DIRECTOR
Timelapse
Directed and Written by Aleix Castro (Spain), Produced by El Dedo en el Ojo (Spain)
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
iRony
Written, Produced and Directed by Radheya Jegatheva (Australia)
SCINEMA BEST ANIMATED FILM
KCLOC
Directed and Produced by Ninaad Kulkarni (USA)
SCINEMA BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Astroturf
Directed by James Uren (United Kingdom), Written and Produced by Nidhi Gupta
(United Kingdom)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
Virtual Humans
Directed by Guillermo Marin, Fernando Cucchietti (Spain), Produced by Peter Coveney, Mariano Vazquez (Spain)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Catalyst – The Secret to Making Better Decisions
Directed and Produced by David Symonds, Nicholas Searle (Australia)
2017
SCINEMA BEST FILM
OWSIA (Darkened Water)
Directed by Alireza Dehghan (Iran)
SCINEMA BEST DOCUMENTARY
Fix and Release
Directed by Scott Dobson and Jono Nemethy (Canada)
SCINEMA BEST DIRECTOR
The Purple Plain
Directed by Kim Albright (United Kingdom)
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
Einstein-Rosen
Directed by Olga Osorio (Spain)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR BEST EXPERIMENTAL/ANIMATED FILM
Think like a scientist: Natural Selection in an Outbreak
Directed by Nathan Dappen and Neil Losin (USA)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
Nex
Directed by Philipp Buschauer, Michael Loithaler and Marlene Raml (Austria)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Pangolins in Peril: A Story of Rare Scales
Directed by Muhammad Ali Ijaz (Pakistan)
SCINEMA SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Test Tube Babes
Directed by Alice Wade
2016
SCINEMA BEST FILM
Maratus
Directed by Simon Cunich (Australia)
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
The Amazing Life Cycle of the European Eel
Directed by Sofia Castello y Tickell (United Kingdom)
SCINEMA BEST DOCUMENTARY
Hilleman – A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children
Directed by Donald Mitchell (USA)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR BEST EXPERIMENTAL/ANIMATED FILM
Metamorphosis of plants
Directed by Urszula Zajączkowska (Poland)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
Corpus
Directed by Marc Héricher (France)
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Wonders of Life – Size Matters
Directed by Paul Olding (United Kingdom)
2013
SCINEMA BEST FILM
Stem Cell Revolutions
SCINEMA BEST ANIMATION
Clouded Leopard Kill
SCINEMA BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Night of the Crysal Mutants
Animator and sound by Dr Claire Pannell
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
Critical Thinking Series
Directed by James Hutson
SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
The Measure of Things
Series directed by Mike Cunliffe
2012
SCINEMA BEST FILM
Into The Gyre (USA)
Directed by Scott Elliot
SCINEMA BEST DIRECTOR
Out of Our Minds (USA)
Directed by Kate Webbink
SCINEMA BEST ANIMATION
Centrefold (UK)
Directed by Ellie Land
SCINEMA BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Coffee Ring Effect (USA)
Directed by Kurtis Sensenig
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
Reflector (USA)
Directed by Dave Hill
SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
Robot Quadrators Perform the James Bond Theme (USA)
Directed by Kurtis Sensenig
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
The Polar Explorer (Canada)
Directed by Mark Terry
SCINEMA BEST TELEVISION SERIES AWARD
Australia: A Time-Travellers Guide (Australia)
Directed by Richard Smith
2011
SCINEMA BEST FILM
The Lightbulb Conspiracy
Directed by Cosima Dannoritzer
SCINEMA BEST DIRECTOR AND AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
The City Dark
Directed by Ian Cheney
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Wonders of the Solar System
Directed by Paul Olding
SCINEMA AWARD FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY
Where the Wild Things Were
Directed by Amber Cherry Eames
2010
SCINEMA BEST FILM
How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer
Directed by Annamaria Talas
SCINEMA BEST SHORT FILM
Nano You (Spain, UK)
Directed by Tom Mustill
SCINEMA BEST ANIMATION
An Eyeful of Sound (Canada, Netherlands, UK)
Directed by Samantha Moore
SCINEMA AWARD FOR TECHNICAL MERIT
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Directed by Jeronimo Rocha
SCINEMA BEST TELEVISION SERIES AWARD
Whatever! The Science of Teens
Directed by L. Faber, D. Ortega, A Delaney
SCINEMA FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S AWARD
Honeybee Blues
Directed by Stefan Moore
SCINEMA AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC MERIT
Do you know what time it is?
Directed by Paul Olding
2001
SCINEMA BEST FILM
Australia: Eye of the Storm
ABC TV – Natural History Unit
SCINEMA BEST ENVIRONMENTAL FILM
Silent Sentinels
ABC-TV Science Unit
SCINEMA BEST STUDENT FILM
Sheep thing + Ladder = One
Nicholas Kallincos
SCINEMA AWARD FOR MOST INNOVATIVE FILM
Atom Bond – The Atom with the Golden Electron
Classroom Video
SCINEMA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE
Archmede (Mad Cow)
Ex Nihilo
